You offer 12 good suggestions to improve the electoral system (editorial, Nov. 7).
The suggestions made by the three peer reviewers (Ambady Ramachandran, Ken Redekop and Peter EH Schwarz) and the Biomedcentral Editorial Team helped to improve the quality of this manuscript Editorial support of Ajaib Kochar is greatly appreciated.
Mirza's strategy, and much of his effort, is on seeking to improve the balance of our editorial content, and extending the breadth and depth of voices we use, whilst also ensuring we practice what we preach by mirroring good practices internally.
While it said that "no mayor has devoted more effort to improving the schools, " the editorial did not list improvements or specifically mention Mr. Bloomberg's success in winning mayoral control over the schools.
There is an unseen but important restructuring of the editorial staff to improve the workflow – to ensure stories go on to the web faster and in a more even flow.
In the revised version, we have followed all the editorial recommendations to improve the clarity of the manuscript and to adapt it to a general audience.
The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed comments that improved both the editorial and technical quality of this article substantially.
Minor changes to the manuals included the correction of some mistakes in spelling and grammar, editorial changes to improve the clarity of some of the instructions provided, and alterations to the size of some text and images.
In response to these quality concerns, authors propose the use of tools to evaluate the quality of health information web sites [ 73, 74], and/or to introduce obligatory standards or evidence-based editorial criteria to improve the quality of health information sites [ 54, 66, 75, 76].
The suggestions made by the three peer reviewers (Eric D Mintz, James R Butler and Richard Rheingans) and the Biomedcentral Editorial Team helped to improve the quality of this manuscript.
